YouScribe, a digital streaming library, has announced that it has raised nearly €5 million in funding to consolidate its development in Africa.
Created in 2011 in France, Youscribe is a digital library model that provides access to over a million books via mobile devices. Today, the startup has become the largest streaming library in France and is now seeking development opportunities on the African continent.
Founded by Juan Pirlot de Corbion, Youscribe gives everyone, everywhere and at any time, access to reading, culture, and education through the digitization of books. Novels, essays, comics, and textbooks are now available on the platform on an unlimited basis, by subscription. The platform currently has 2 million registered members.
Today, the startup is established in 10 African countries (Ivory Coast, Senegal, Morocco, Mali, South Africa, Cameroon, Tunisia, Burkina Faso, Congo DRC, Madagascar) and increasingly embodies the ambition to make reading accessible to as many people as possible and to raise the level of education on the African continent.
This €5 million investment from Banque des Territoires, on behalf of the French government as part of France 2030, is an important step for YouScribe, which wants to accelerate its development and consolidate its consumer offering on the continent.